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In pasture overlooked by Tory Hill to the northeast and sloping gradually downwards toward a stream 200m to the SE. Excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Improvement Scheme. Excavation license number: E2499, Area 4. The smelting furnace here was located within a circular building (int. diam. 5.9m; entrances at NW and SE) and there was also some evidence that smithing was carried out nearby. The foundations of the walls of the building consisted of a combination of continuous slot-trenching and post-holes at SE and post-holes set at intervals to the NW. Outside the northern entrance there was a hearth and a figure-of-eight drying kiln. Samples from the smelting furnace, the building and the drying kilns produced calibrated radio-carbon dates ranging from AD 550 to AD 940. (Wren 2009, 255, no. 1001; Wren 2010)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 September 2013
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